[Celestial Academy — Side Corridor — 11:33 AM]
The creature at 87,900 HP.
The rear zone with forty percent of its exoskeleton fractured.
3.1 seconds of reduced coordination ending.
The creature reoriented — this time toward Cael. Not toward Raven. Not toward Aurum on the wall.
Toward Cael.
The creature's analysis had identified the suppression seal as the variable that interrupted its attack sequence — eliminating that variable was more efficient than continuing the current pattern.
Cael looked at the creature orienting toward him.
He didn't step back.
He had spent twenty years being the Temple's executor. He had faced enough things in those twenty years to know that stepping back from something level 200 was simply dying in a different position.
"Whenever you're ready," he said to Raven and Marcus.
[Raven — Blood Whip — whip toward fractured rear zone]
